Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first matches played by the Crimson will be a series with five other local organizations, the matches to be played in the Commonwealth Armory. Starting shortly after the Christmas recess the Harvard riders will meet in succession the Essex Club, the 101st Artillery, the 110th Cavalry officers, the 110th Cavalry enlisted men, and the Lancers. The Freshman team may also be entered in these local matches and although they will be much less experienced than their opponents they will get some valuable training from their older adversaries. Later in the year will come the meets with Princeton and Yale...
Religion. On the eve of the convention, the Detroit Board of Commerce sent a letter to Detroit church members. This letter urged that invitations to labor leaders to address congregations on the Sunday of the convention be withdrawn as inimical to local industries...
Nevertheless the Detroit church invitations were withdrawn in accordance with the Board of Commerce's admonitions. Further, the local Y. M. C. A. canceled President Green's Sunday talk before a Y. M. C. A. mass meeting, because his presence might hamper the collections of their $5,000,000 building fund subscriptions...
...First, learn what is wrong with your prospective convert-either from gossip or local suspicion. There is some sin which is obstructing his free communion with God. Accuse him of the sin of which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered...
...People came to the Square on market days with large baskets on their arms and bought produce from the local farmers. The well-cultivated acres of these farmers were a source of great pride to the Cambridge people of those days...